WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence shows that China has conducted “human testing” on members of the People’s Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,” the top U.S. intelligence official said Friday.
I’m sure this will end well.https://t.co/gh4LAHLRh6
— ɹǝlɐǝʇsɹǝʌᴉ˥ (@Liverstealer) December 4, 2020
John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, included the explosive claim in a long Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he made the case that China poses the pre-eminent national security threat to the U.S.
There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing’s pursuit of power,” wrote Ratcliffe, a Republican former member of Congress from Texas.
The nation’s top intelligence official has effectively accused China of trying to create an army of genetically engineered super-soldiers like Captain America.
No credible sources have given any follow up on this claim or when the Avengers might assemble.https://t.co/uJsozTMQQT
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 4, 2020
His office and the CIA did not immediately respond to requests to elaborate on the notion that China sought to create “super soldiers” of the sort depicted in Hollywood films like “Captain America,” “Bloodshot” and “Universal Soldier.”
China could be developing super soldiers with “biologically enhanced capabilities,” similar to Marvel’s Captain America, according to U.S. intelligence https://t.co/2FOCwS0HJH
— Intl. Business Times (@IBTimes) December 4, 2020
Last year, two American scholars wrote a paper examining China’s ambitions to apply biotechnology to the battlefield, including what they said were signs that China was interested in using gene-editing technology to enhance human — and perhaps soldier — performance.
Specifically, the scholars explored Chinese research using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, short for “clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” CRISPR has been used to treat genetic diseases and modify plants, but Western scientists consider it unethical to seek to manipulate genes to boost the performance of healthy people.
“While the potential leveraging of CRISPR to increase human capabilities on the future battlefield remains only a hypothetical possibility at the present, there are indications that Chinese military researchers are starting to explore its potential,” wrote the scholars, Elsa Kania, an expert on Chinese defense technology at the Center for a New American Security, and Wilson VornDick, a consultant on China matters and former Navy officer. read more…
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What about the US genetically modified soldiers as reported in Syria several years back?
How come the US (or anyone else for that matter) doesn’t talk about that one? Ah, because we need to bash China. Got it.
Anyone watch Enter the Dragon? They already have super soldiers.
Well, if China will create super soldiers and Trump he return in 2024, so we will see the Clone Wars with Trump as Sheev Palpatine (or Jabba the Hutt? ) and this time the chinese are who have clones
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